NL vs. PBI, TILE, ACCO, ARC, AVY, MSA, HNI, SCS, LXU, and VHI
Should you be buying NL Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NL Industries include Pitney Bowes (PBI), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), LSB Industries (LXU), and Valhi (VHI).
NL Industries (NYSE:NL) and Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
NL Industries has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pitney Bowes has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NL Industries has a net margin of 7.08% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -11.67%. NL Industries' return on equity of 2.88% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.
10.7% of NL Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of NL Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NL Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NL Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pitney Bowes received 66 more outperform votes than NL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.94% of users gave NL Industries an outperform vote while only 54.58% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
NL Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. NL Industries pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pitney Bowes pays out -9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
NL Industries presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential downside of 31.97%. Given NL Industries' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe NL Industries is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 1 more articles in the media than NL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 7 mentions for NL Industries. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat NL Industries' score of 0.35 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NL Industries beats Pitney Bowes on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get NL Industries News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for NL and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
NL Industries Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
